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News Dippst By The Associated Press_| Majority of Senate now opposes Bork WASHINGTON — Robert H. Bork’s Su preme Court nomination was dealt an almost „ certainly fatal blow Thursday as opposition spread to a majority of the Senate. But President Reagan said he wouldn’t surrender “in the face of a lynch mob.” Reagan officials, giving what seemed to be conflicting signals, insisted the fight would continue to the Senate floor, no matter how bleak the outlook, butalso said it was up to Bork to decide whether to withdraw. Bork went at midday to the Justice Depart ment to meet with Attorney General Edwin Meese III, raising speculation the nomination might soon be withdrawn. Department officials added to the speculation by saying Meese had arranged a meeting with Reagan to talk over Bork’sfate. However, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said later that there would be no such meeting, that Meese had reported there was no change in the status of the nomination and that “our strategy is to continue to make our case and change minds.” Terry Eastland, a Justice Department spokesman said Bork “obviously wants to stay in the fight for the nomination as of today and the attorney general is not trying to persuade him one way or the other.” Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. George Mitchell of Maine — himself a former federal judge — declared on the Senate floor that he would oppose Bork’s nomination if the White House pursues it to a final vote. According to an Associated Press tabulation, based on floor speeches, written statements and a telephone survey, Mitchell was the 51st senator in the 100-member chamber to declare he would re ject confirmation. The number of announced opponents later reached 53. Reagan, speaking briefly with reporters at the White House, was asked if he was giving up the fight tor bork s coniirmauon ana saia, it s virtually impossible to give up in the face of a lynch mob.” He didn’t say to whom he was referring. The Senate Judiciary Committee was al ready busy reviewing backgrounds of possible replacement nominees. Fitzwater confirmed that the Justice Depart ment maintains lists of possible candidates for judicial openings, including the Supreme Court, but said that no list of replacements for Bork had been sent to the White House. “Believe me, the president does not want consideration of any alternative candidates,” the spokesman said. PTL officials resign after ruling FORT MILL, S.C. — PTL Chair man Jerry Falwell and the ministry’s board members resigned Thursday and Falwell said he feared defrocked minister Jim Bakker could return, making the ministry “the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Chris tianity in 2,000 years.” The resignations were prompted by a court ruling Wednesday that allowed PTL’s creditors and con tributors to file a competing plan for reorganizing the ministry, which is plagued by more than $60 million in debt. Bakker, in a news conference at his mountaintop retreat near Gat linburg, Tenn., said he would return to the ministry if invited to do so by its creditors. Bakker said he thought Falwell was resigning to avoid testi fying under oath in bankruptcy court. Falwell, who has his own ministry based in Lynchburg, Va., said PTL’s main television program, the “PTL Club,” will remain on the air at least three weeks, but the payroll at the “Heritage USA” theme park will not oe paia rnaay. “I hope the successor will pay them,” he said. Falwell asked PTl/s 1,200 workers to stay on. Falwell said members of the PTL’s board were willing to fight Bakker, but unwilling to fight the courts. And he predicted Thursday that within six months, “barring a miracle of God,” Bakker would res ume control of the evangelical em pire he turned over to Falwell in March amid a sex-and-money scan dal. Nelwa&kan Editor Mike Reiliey Managing Editor Jen Oeselms Editorial Page Editor Jeanne Bourne Wire Editor Linda Hartmann Sports Editor Jett Apel Arts a. Entertain ment Editor Bill Allen General Manager Daniel Shattil Production Manager Katherine Policky Advertising Manager Marcia Miller ; jblications Board Chair man Don Johnson The Daily Nebraskan (USPS‘ 144-080) is published oy the UNL Publications Board weekdays during academic year (except holi days). weekly during the summer session Subscription price is $35 for one year. Postmaster, send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb 68588-0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1987 DAILY NEBRASKAN Ortega reminds Reagan: ‘Rambo’ only a movie figure UNITED NATIONS — President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua accused the United States on Thursday of having no regard for justice in his country, and repeated his demand for direct peace negotiations with Wash ington. The six-member U.S. delegation walked out of the General Assembly hall early in a harshly critical speech during which Ortega said, to hearty applause: “Let President Reagan re call that ‘Rambo’ exists only in the movies.” Ortega repeatedly attacked Re agan for asking Congress to vote more aid for rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista gov ernment, claiming the request defies a peace accord signed by the five Central American presidents Aug. 7. Reagan said in a speech Wednes day to the Organization of American States that he was asking for $270 million in new aid to the U.S.-backed rebels, known as Contras, to make sure the Sandinistas honor the peace plan. Democratic congressional leaders say his chances of getting the money are slim. A $100 million aid package ran out Oct. 1. In Brief Reagan nominates new transportation secretary WASHINGTON - President Reagan on Thursday nominated James H. Burnley IV, a federal transportation official who has clashed with senators about aviation safety, to succeed Elizabeth Dole as secretary of transportation. Candidate says son conceived before marriage Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson acknowledged Wednesday that his first son was conceived months before his marriage and that he had concealed the wedding date. Robertson, a television evangelist who stepped down from his ministry to pursue his presidential ambitions, said in an interview published in Thursday editions of The Washington Post that he and his wife Dede always considered March 22,1954, as the day their marriage started because “our son was conceived on that day.” The Robertsons legal date of marriage is Aug. 27, 1954. One dead, hundreds arrested in Chilean strike SANTIAGO, Chile — Army troops fired on rock-throwing demon strators in a Santiago slum during a nationwide general strike Wednes day, and a 2-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet, authorities and radio reports said. Dozens of other clashes were quelled by tear gas, water cannon and police with nightsticks. About 400 people, including six prominent Socialists, were detained by police nationwide, according to police sources and human rights organizations. As least ten people, three of them policemen, were wounded in daylong protests in Santiago. Nebraska agricultural subsidies to top $1 billion For the second year in a row, Nebraska farmers are harvesting a crop that will cam more than $1 billion in direct subsidies from the federal government, according to estimates calculated by the state office of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. 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